Plastic screw cap goes into plastic, the rest into cardboard.
Fireplace
Those are TetraPak (manufacturer of the container), you can fold them real neat together and toss them into paper packaging – the rule of thumb is to place the trash into the container which most of the material is made of. So if you have cardboard with some plastic inlining but its mostly cardboard, it goes into cardboard.[folding cardboad box](https://www.instructables.com/Folding-a-Cardboard-Milk-Container/)
It’s very hard and energy intensive to recycle and requires a dedicated factory for that. Afaik there is only one such plant in Sweden. So don’t bother, it’s multiple layers of laminated plastic, paper and metal, it need’s special handling anyway. Just throw it in the paper bin if you want to feel good about yourself and hope it will be at least partially recycled (sometimes they just reuse the paper pulp).
Here is the guide:
[https://avfallhalsingland.se/sorteringsguide/pappersforpackning/mjolkkartong/](https://avfallhalsingland.se/sorteringsguide/pappersforpackning/mjolkkartong/)
It looks like it goes in paper. My Swedish isn’t the best though.
In Denmark both the cap and the rest of the box goes in plastic do to the plastic coding and how it’s near impossible to reuse as carton.
I think it says somewhere on the box (in swedish obv) that the cap is sorted as plastic and the rest as cardboard/paper.
Both?…
The whole thing, plastic cap included, goes into cardboard.
This according to FTI, which are the ones who handles the recycling – or at least govern it.
(Not to be confused with Naturvårdsverket that is the state branch which is responsible, nor ex. ragnsells who is the largest transporter of recycled goods)
Paper/cardboard, cap in plastic
Paper
Thät gous to thä rägular soup pouse aka housholes soupor.
Innehåller både plast och papper så det är 50/50. Hitta ett system som passar dig så du kommer ihåg att slänga den varannan gång i plasten och varannan papper.
Most packaging in sweden has sorting instructions printed on it somewhere, in the case of beverage cartons you rinse it and fold it up (just so it’s flat-ish, you don’t have to do origami with it) and sort it as paper, and the cap goes separately into plastic.
Just burn it, burn it with fire!
Eftersom de är en ko på klassas de nog som djur och då går den i matavfall
It’s not recycled, it’s burnt. So “Brännbart”.
Everything goes into cardboard.
Plaper
the kork on the plast and the forpäckning on the kartong
paper. you can even leave the cap on if you’re lazy
Should be instructions on most Swedish products on how to dispose of the trash, like others are saying the lid is plastic and the rest is cardboard
General waste for combustion
The lid is plastic and the rest is cardboard.
When in doubt, the trick is that it should be sorted as the kind it contains most of. Paper in this case.
What would you do if you realized you’d been putting green / brown bottles in the clear glass bin by mistake? Asking for a friend obviously…
Kartong.
The plastic cork in plastic ♻️
Kartong.
The plastic cork in plastic ♻️
pro tip is to press it and fold it to save space in the trash.
might sound obvious
Danmark
Generally speaking, everything that can easily be removed (the cap in this case) goes in whatever material it is and the rest goes into the other (cardboard in this case). This is because it’s made out of mostly cardboard, despite being there being some plastic on the box.
Im from sweden and that is a regular milk-carton (paper box with plastic cap). I will translate the text for your amuse:
**”Färsk mjölk”** = Fresh milk
**”Från frigående svenska arlakor”** = from free-range arla-cows
**”Ännu bättre djuromsorg”** = with more animal welfare
**”Vad betyder det? läs mer på sidan!”** = what does that mean? read more on the side!
The red box is full fat milk, the green is skimmed, the blue is low fat and then we have a yellow one called “mini-mjölk” (mini-milk) and its 0,1 % fat so its equal to “fat-free”. We also have one dark red thats called “lantmjölk” (farm-milk”) and is unpasteurized so it has a natural fat content of 3,7-4,5 % milkfat.
Here in Denmark it goes, in the plastic container
i throw them away 🤷🏼♀️
Don’t listen to them. It goes into “pappersförpackningar”, NOT cardboard. Do not put these kinds of packages into cardboard recycling, please.
It says on the package, “Sorteras som […]”.
Papper. Locket kommer att gå i plastkärl.
Det finns alltid Danmark om du är förvirrad.
Does not matter – it’s all burnt anyway
in the end it all goes into the furnaces at remote heating plants. Unless you drive to your communal recycling plant and sort it yourself there.
Just burn it. Free energy.
I’ve interviewed someone who works with water and waste for school, according to her you really just go by whatever material there is more of 🙂 Like even if it’s 60% plastic and 40% cardboard you would sort it into plastic
Yes
The other one
Unfortunately they can’t be actually recycled. The just get burned.
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Plastic screw cap goes into plastic, the rest into cardboard.
Fireplace
Those are TetraPak (manufacturer of the container), you can fold them real neat together and toss them into paper packaging – the rule of thumb is to place the trash into the container which most of the material is made of. So if you have cardboard with some plastic inlining but its mostly cardboard, it goes into cardboard.[folding cardboad box](https://www.instructables.com/Folding-a-Cardboard-Milk-Container/)
It’s very hard and energy intensive to recycle and requires a dedicated factory for that. Afaik there is only one such plant in Sweden. So don’t bother, it’s multiple layers of laminated plastic, paper and metal, it need’s special handling anyway. Just throw it in the paper bin if you want to feel good about yourself and hope it will be at least partially recycled (sometimes they just reuse the paper pulp).
Here is the guide:
[https://avfallhalsingland.se/sorteringsguide/pappersforpackning/mjolkkartong/](https://avfallhalsingland.se/sorteringsguide/pappersforpackning/mjolkkartong/)
It looks like it goes in paper. My Swedish isn’t the best though.
In Denmark both the cap and the rest of the box goes in plastic do to the plastic coding and how it’s near impossible to reuse as carton.
I think it says somewhere on the box (in swedish obv) that the cap is sorted as plastic and the rest as cardboard/paper.
Both?…
The whole thing, plastic cap included, goes into cardboard.
This according to FTI, which are the ones who handles the recycling – or at least govern it.
(Not to be confused with Naturvårdsverket that is the state branch which is responsible, nor ex. ragnsells who is the largest transporter of recycled goods)
Paper/cardboard, cap in plastic
Paper
Thät gous to thä rägular soup pouse aka housholes soupor.
Innehåller både plast och papper så det är 50/50. Hitta ett system som passar dig så du kommer ihåg att slänga den varannan gång i plasten och varannan papper.
Most packaging in sweden has sorting instructions printed on it somewhere, in the case of beverage cartons you rinse it and fold it up (just so it’s flat-ish, you don’t have to do origami with it) and sort it as paper, and the cap goes separately into plastic.
Just burn it, burn it with fire!
Eftersom de är en ko på klassas de nog som djur och då går den i matavfall
It’s not recycled, it’s burnt. So “Brännbart”.
Everything goes into cardboard.
Plaper
the kork on the plast and the forpäckning on the kartong
Bor man i Gästrikland så kan man använda Gästrike återvinnares [mobilvänliga sida](https://gastrikeatervinnare.se/?q=MJ%25C3%2596LKkartong) för att söka sig fram till rätt förfarande.
paper. you can even leave the cap on if you’re lazy
Should be instructions on most Swedish products on how to dispose of the trash, like others are saying the lid is plastic and the rest is cardboard
General waste for combustion
The lid is plastic and the rest is cardboard.
When in doubt, the trick is that it should be sorted as the kind it contains most of. Paper in this case.
What would you do if you realized you’d been putting green / brown bottles in the clear glass bin by mistake? Asking for a friend obviously…
Kartong.
The plastic cork in plastic ♻️
Kartong.
The plastic cork in plastic ♻️
pro tip is to press it and fold it to save space in the trash.
might sound obvious
Danmark
Generally speaking, everything that can easily be removed (the cap in this case) goes in whatever material it is and the rest goes into the other (cardboard in this case). This is because it’s made out of mostly cardboard, despite being there being some plastic on the box.
Im from sweden and that is a regular milk-carton (paper box with plastic cap). I will translate the text for your amuse:
**”Färsk mjölk”** = Fresh milk
**”Från frigående svenska arlakor”** = from free-range arla-cows
**”Ännu bättre djuromsorg”** = with more animal welfare
**”Vad betyder det? läs mer på sidan!”** = what does that mean? read more on the side!
The red box is full fat milk, the green is skimmed, the blue is low fat and then we have a yellow one called “mini-mjölk” (mini-milk) and its 0,1 % fat so its equal to “fat-free”. We also have one dark red thats called “lantmjölk” (farm-milk”) and is unpasteurized so it has a natural fat content of 3,7-4,5 % milkfat.
Here in Denmark it goes, in the plastic container
i throw them away 🤷🏼♀️
Don’t listen to them. It goes into “pappersförpackningar”, NOT cardboard. Do not put these kinds of packages into cardboard recycling, please.
It says on the package, “Sorteras som […]”.
Papper. Locket kommer att gå i plastkärl.
Det finns alltid Danmark om du är förvirrad.
Does not matter – it’s all burnt anyway
in the end it all goes into the furnaces at remote heating plants. Unless you drive to your communal recycling plant and sort it yourself there.
Just burn it. Free energy.
I’ve interviewed someone who works with water and waste for school, according to her you really just go by whatever material there is more of 🙂 Like even if it’s 60% plastic and 40% cardboard you would sort it into plastic
Yes
The other one
Unfortunately they can’t be actually recycled. The just get burned.
Återvunnen mjölk kallas nog filmjölk…..tror jag
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